Titan II GLV | Gemini VI-A
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Launch Window
Dec. 15, 1965, 1:37 p.m. - Dec. 15, 1965, 1:37 p.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
Dec. 15, 1965, 1:37 p.m. - Dec. 15, 1965, 1:37 p.m.
Gemini 6A was the fifth crewed mission of NASA's Project Gemini. The mission was commanded by Command Pilot Walter M. Schirra, Jr. and Pilot Thomas P. Stafford. The mission achieved the first crewed rendezvous with the Gemini 7 spacecraft. The mission began on December 15, 1965, 13:37:26 UTC and ended on December 16, 1965, 15:28:50 UTC.
The Titan II GLV (Gemini Launch Vehicle) or Gemini-Titan II was an American expendable launch system derived from the Titan II missile, which was used to launch twelve Gemini missions for NASA between 1964 and 1966. Two unmanned launches followed by ten manned ones were conducted from Launch Complex 19 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, starting with Gemini 1 on April 8, 1964.
Gemini SC6 is the Gemini capsule used for the Gemini 6 mission launched on December 15, 1965 and crewed by astronauts Walter M. Schirra, Jr. (command pilot) and Thomas P. Stafford (pilot).
Gemini Details
Date of
Birth: March 12, 1923
Date of Death:
May 3, 2007
Date of
Birth: Sept. 17, 1930
Date of Death:
March 18, 2024
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